Personality

r 25 love of God to make it materialize. The substance of things hoped for are not easily transmuted into things gained and the only thing which transmutes them is faith. Through faith, Sara conceived and bore Isaac, and through faith the most barren life can conceive ideals and holding fast to them, see them born into perfect manifestation. Faith makes the businessman strong enough to venture and win. Faith teaches him to wait and trust until changing fortune again turns the wheel. Faith makes the friend, the lover, the mourner, all go forward with a hope that never fails. Fear has shut the door of success in the face of millions, but faith ever stands ready to open it and let the free spirit pass to new levels of peace, power and plenty. Success built upon faith is ever renewing. It remains because it is reborn over and over again through itself. 26 EIGHTH SUCCESS METHOD SELFNESS WHEN one has arrived at the eighth fundamental, he or she is beginning to have an intelligent idea of just what life requires of them, and their success or failure gathers around them according to the magnet they have made of themselves. One cannot go very far in self-analysis before finding that all things gather round, leave and return to the self, and this self becomes an absorbing study. There is no such thing in the world as unselfishness, if there were we would cease to exist, for the self is the center of the magnet called "man"; it is man himself and always will be. There are two distinct expressions of self one of these makes for the eternal and abiding success and is drawn from the varieties of living; the other often brings an apparent success, but it is built on the laws of change which manifest eventually in failure. The success method is called by these selfishness, but the new world calls one "selfness" or universality, and the other, separateness or personality. Upon these two great laws hang the past, present and future of every living soul. Personality and universality are both states of consciousness and no one is to be blamed or praised because of them, but one must be taught of them, so that they will recognize the results of their own laws. The younger one is in the contact of the experiences of life, the more personal and separate they will be; they will only know themselves and their own desires, their own aims and these will dominate their mind and actions. The everlasting ego stands out in pride and arrogance, and says to the whole world: "I